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Issen is a personal AI language tutor designed to improve language learning through structured curriculum, active teaching, and speech recognition, but users highlight the need for better beginner experience, pronunciation accuracy, and more guided learning. The app uses advanced AI models for conversation, but faces challenges with error correction, cultural nuances, and user engagement, especially for beginners and less common languages.
French AI startup Mistral, backed by Microsoft, is launching its first reasoning model capable of multi-language reasoning, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Chinese models like DeepSeek's R1, with a focus on European languages and open-weight models for easier access and modification.
Social media companies have been focusing their automatic content detection and removal efforts more on content in English than the world’s 7,000 other languages, leading to poor local language content moderation and contributing to human rights abuses. Multilingual large language models have been developed to address this issue, but they face challenges such as poor quality data, disparities in the amount of data they train on in each language, and the curse of multilinguality. Social media companies need to offer more transparency and accountability, prioritize individual language performance over scalability, and consult with language communities to improve content moderation.